I heard the bus catching on fire may have been due to the fact that the
passengers were from a nursing home and MANY of them were using bottled
oxygen.
View from space shows Rita is as big as the entire Gulf of Mexico. We pray
for everyone involved in this and hope all displaced people (don't call them
refugees, they are Americans) survive this and are treated well.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin G Flink" <mgflink@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: [OM] From Dallas
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> This letter from my son, who is with St Pauls Hospital in Dallas is in
>> response to the letter written my daughter (see bottom) in London.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jenny, it is TERRIBLE. As of this morning Dallas is getting busloads and
>> planelaods of patients who have been evacuated from Houston. A busload
>> of
>> patients coming in from Houston caught fire on a highway outstide Dallas
>> this morning. Right now Dallas traffic is stopped. 24 died in the
>> incident; the rest of the victims are being taken to Parkland (which is
> next
>> door to my hospital) for burns. We are getting overflow at my hospital.
>> Our resources are stretched to the limits. Reports are that a planeload
> is
>> landing at DFW now and we're getting an additional 25 patients into our
>> hospital. I am on the disaster coordination team with the hospital. I
>> am
>> giving hourly updates to teams as information comes in. Based on reports
>> from the county or feds (which are sometimes incorrect, sketchy, or
>> conflicting) we are moving resources in our hospital to where we think
>> they're needed. As information changes we need to recoordinate plans
> (which
>> happens frequently). All administrators are pulling their hair out
>> coordinating resources. I really feel like we are being tested to the
>> limit. Just as we thought the work from Katrina was settling down now we
>> have Rita. It's really testing everyone's ability to function as a team
> in
>> a longstanding disaster environment. I am focusing on the coordination
>> efforts; the human suffering and dislocation is terrible on top of all
> this
>> which I tend to loose sight of as I am focused on just absorbing the work
>> that has to be done to handle everything here at the hospital. The
>> community resources outside the hospital are also being tested so the
> whole
>> community is really stressed and you can feel it in the air. . . alot of
>> nervous energy.
>>
>> Our friends from New Orleans (the Benjamins) have been displaced three
> times
>> this summer. Their home was destroyed in New Orleans. They stayed in
>> Atlanta during Katrina. They then relocated to Houston. Now they are
> being
>> evacuated from Houston. They are in Dallas now. We will be seeing them
> the
>> weekend. They have two children (3 and 5).
>>
>> a
>>
>>
>> >>> < 9/22/2005 6:23 PM >>>
>> Dear Aaron
>> This Rita Storm is BIG news here. Are people coming to Dallas from the
>> coastal towns of Texas? It is just so sad that this is happening again,
> in
>> such
>> quick succession. How is it affecting you?
>> Hope to hear from you.
>> Jenny
>>
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